Improved wringing-machine



`To a/ZZ whom it may concern;

i NITED 'i STATES PATENT i FEICE.

' J. EDWARD EvEEETn-,OE DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOE To w. -EvEEETT a co., 0E SAME PLACE.

` IMPRovED wRlNGiNGMAoH'I'NE.

Een known than `I, J. EDWARD EVERETT,

of Dedham, in the countyof Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved,

Water Conducting Attachment 'for Clothes- Wringing Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,`mak

i ing part of this speeication, in which- Figure l is an elevation; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section. p

The machine known as a clothes-wringer i is usually attached to the Vtub from which the clothesare taken, the water which is squeezed out of the clothes as `they pass vbetween the rolls of the machine flowing back into the tub.

An inclined board or guide placed under the lower roll serves to direct the water. The machine is, however, sometimes placed on a separate bench or` stand, and a tub is placed on "either or both sides of it, in which case it is very desirable to be able to conduct the water which flows from the clot-hes as they are passed between the rolls into either tub or on either side of the rolls.

My present invention consists cfa water- I am aware that Ward one side or thefother; but this did not collect andrestrain the waterfrorn splashing `over the benchA or loor and lead it directly into the tub, as in my'improved conductor.

' That other'sskilledi-n the art may understand anduse `my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out. l, Y

In the Saiddrawings, A B are thc rolls,

` which are hung in suitable en-d frames, C, and are operated inA any of the usual methods.

Sides a connect these end pieces, C, thus form ing a box, the vbottom b of which is inclined from the ends and fromv th`e longitudinal iniddle partition, c, toward an outlet, d, in each Side. A trough, D, of sheet-zinc or other Suitable material, is placedbeneath the lower roll. Its ends f are furnished with a iin or lip, which slides in a groove, e, made across the end pieces, C, so that this trough may be 'moved'frorn one Side of the box to the other. It has a slot, i, in the bottom extending the whole'length of it, and when the trough is moved toward one Side ofthe box, with its slot i on one side of the middle partition, e, the water which flows from the rolls is ,received in the trough and runs through its slot i into the box and out at the opening d of lthat side of the box toward which the trough-is moved, and when it is desired to turn thewater oft' from the other side of the box thelfftrongh is pushed over to bring the slot i on the other side of the partition c. A light-metalspring, attachedto one of the end pieces, C, on each side,serves to holdthetrongh in p6stion when adj usted, and is depressed into a recess in the woodto permit the trough to be moved. The trough D, instead of Sliding in the groove e, may be suspended byrods fromfthe ends C and be vibrated toward one side or the other of the partition c,- bnt I prefer the construction rst described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The abovedescribed water-conducting atytaehment for clot-heswringers, -consisting of the conducting box with its longitudinal partition 0 and trough D, which may be moved to 

